1st CFP 7th Financial Narrative Processing Workshop (FNP 2026)

[Rayson, Paul]

The 7th Financial Narrative Processing Workshop (FNP 2026)

CALL FOR PAPERS

We are delighted to announce the 7th Financial Narrative Processing Workshop (FNP 2026), an international event dedicated to the intersection of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML), and Financial/Accounting data.

This year, FNP 2026 will be held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, within the framework of LREC 2026. The workshop will run as a one-day hybrid event, allowing for both on-site interaction and online presentation options for authors unable to travel. FNP 2026 marks our 11th international event in Financial NLP and the 7th dedicated FNP workshop. Our community has consistently bridged the gap between computational linguists, data scientists, economists, and accounting scholars. Previous editions have demonstrated strong scholarly impact, with proceedings indexed in the ACL Anthology and IEEE Xplore, and over 100 shared task papers published. 

Invited speaker:

Dr Pablo Haya

Head of Business and Language Analytics (BLA), IIC – Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Call for Papers (main track):

We invite submissions of original, unpublished research in Financial NLP and Financial Text Analysis. We welcome work covering theoretical insights, methodological innovations, datasets, resources, applied systems, and reflections on practical challenges. Negative results are also welcome.

Topics include (but are not limited to):

• Core technologies for financial narratives: morphological analysis, tokenisation, disambiguation, part-of-speech tagging, named entity recognition, chunking, parsing, semantic role labelling, sentiment analysis, document quality, and advanced readability metrics.
• Ethics, diversity, and wellbeing: using NLP to detect misreporting and biases in financial narratives relating to gender, ethnicity, representation of women at work, employee wellbeing, mental health, and organisational stability.
• Resources and tools: financial dictionaries, annotated corpora, benchmarks, software, and novel methodologies.
• Summarisation in financial contexts: single- and multi-document summarisation, headline generation, evaluation of summaries, and cross-domain or cross-lingual summarisation (e.g., company blogs, market briefs, product reviews).
• Social media and financial discourse: analysing online platforms to capture public opinion and sentiment around financial events.
• Multilingual and cross-regulatory perspectives: exploring financial narratives across languages, dialects, and varying international regulatory regimes.
• Ongoing and preliminary research: work-in-progress studies with promising early findings.
• Negative results: experiments showing where methods (including state-of-the-art models such as BERT and its variants) succeed or fail across languages, domains, or tasks.

(Note: In addition to the Main Track, FNP 2026 will also host the FinCausal 2026 shared task. A separate call will be issued for this competition.)

Submission Types:

Formatting will follow the LREC 2026 guidelines.

Long Papers: Up to 8 pages. Should present substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work.

Short Papers: Up to 4 pages. Suitable for describing small focused contributions, negative results, or system demonstrations.

Papers MUST be submitted via the conference submission system (link will be available on the workshop website). All submissions will undergo a double-blind peer review process.

Key Dates:

4 Dec 2025 – First Call for Papers

7 Jan 2026 – Shared-task training set release

10 Jan 2026 – Second Call for Papers

1 Feb 2026 – Shared-task blind test release

15 Feb 2026 – Shared-task system submissions

20 Feb 2026 – Paper submission deadline

11 Mar 2026 – Acceptance notifications

30 Mar 2026 – Camera-ready deadline

11–16 May 2026 – LREC 2026 & Workshops (final date TBC)

Organising Committee: 

General Chair — Dr Mo El-Haj (VinUniversity, Vietnam; Lancaster University, UK) — elh...@vinuni.edu.vn — https://elhaj.uk

Programme Chair — Prof Antonio Moreno-Sandoval (UAM, Spain) — antonio....@uam.es — https://portalcientifico.uam.es/en/ipublic/researcher/260535

Programme Chair — Dr Ana García-Serrano (UNED, Spain) — aga...@lsi.uned.es — https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=Y7G5f8MAAAAJ

Programme Chair — Dr Chung-Chi Chen (AIST, Japan) — c.c....@acm.org— https://nlpfin.github.io/

Publicity Chair — Prof Paul Rayson (Lancaster University, UK) — p.ra...@lancaster.ac.uk

Publicity Chair — Yanco Amor Torterolo Orta (UNED, Spain) — ytort...@lsi.uned.es

Shared Task Chair — Dr Jordi Porta (UAM / Real Academia Española, Spain) — jordi...@uam.es

Publication Chair — Prof Paloma Martínez (UC3M, Spain) — p...@uc3m.es— https://hulat.inf.uc3m.es/en/nosotros/miembros/pmf

Scholarly Impact:

FNP has built a strong research presence, producing influential datasets, widely cited papers, and long-running shared tasks. Citation records are publicly available:

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8Qn7yJ8AAAAJ

ACL Anthology: https://aclanthology.org/venues/fnp/

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Paul Rayson

Director of UCREL and Professor of Natural Language Processing

SCC Data Theme Lead

School of Computing and Communications, InfoLab21, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK.

Web: https://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/people/Paul-Rayson/  

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